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Author Laughey, Dan

Title Key Themes in Media Theory
Published Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 What is media theory?; Chapter 2 Behaviourism and media effects; Chapter 3 Modernity and medium theory; Chapter 4 Structuralism and semiotics; Chapter 5 Interactionism and structuration; Chapter 6 Feminisms and gender; Chapter 7 Political economy and postcolonial theory; Chapter 8 Postmodernity and the information society; Chapter 9 Consumerism and everyday life; Chapter 10 Debating media theory; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary Offers a critical introduction to the theories of media studies. This book embraces media in their everyday cultural forms - music, internet, film, television, radio, newspapers and magazines - to enable a view of the 'big picture' of media theory
Notes Print version record
Subject Mass media.
Mass media -- Philosophy
Mass media and culture.
Mass media and culture -- Case studies
mass media.
Mass media
Mass media and culture
Mass media -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780335234912
0335234917
9780335218134
033521813X
1281330922
9781281330925